Interior min asks lawyers to appeal Albania migrant ruling

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 22 - The interior ministry on Tuesday instructed State attorneys to appeal against last Friday's ruling by a Rome court's immigration branch scrubbing the detention of the first 12 migrants to be sent to a processing centre in Albania on grounds they did not come from wholly safe countries, Bangladesh and Egypt.
    The legal basis of the appeal will be that the court failed to apply the government's list of safe countries, which includes Bangladesh and Egypt, sources said.
    The government has now drawn up a 'primary' law listing 19 countries, including Egypt and Bangladesh, as safe and has said courts cannot rule against it on the basis of the October 4 European Court of Justice ruling which found that not all the territories of the two countries were safe.
    photo: Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi (ANSA).